Walking in the Cevennes: 31 walks and the Tour of Mont Lozere

An introductory guidebook to the best walking in the Cevennes region of southern France, describing 16 day-walks in the southern Cevennes (based around Le Vignan), 15 day-walks in the northern Cevennes (based around Florac) and a 5-day trek around Mont Lozère. Although just across the River Rhone from Provence, the Cevennes is one of France's wild and unknown regions. Resembling the Scottish Highlands in places (similar in height at a maximum of 1567m, but warmer and with fewer midges), the region includes the 230,000 sq km Parc National des Cevennes and the upper reaches of the Tarn gorge. First introduced to a wider world by Caesar's crossing and then by the young Robert Louis Stevenson and his 'Walks with a Donkey' (1879), the Cevennes still has much that can be freshly explored. Compared with Provence the landscapes are harsher, more mountainous, less populated. The weather is more extreme: winters are cold, windblown and snowy, summers are dry and hot. The Cevennes attracts the walker and explorer who has a taste for a more rugged and subtler landscape. This is Janette Norton's third Cicerone guide to France, following on from her Haute Savoie and Provence guides. Based in the north around Florac and in the south around Le Vigan, the guide explores the walking potential of the region in 31 half- to full-day walks and the well-known five-day circuit of Mont Lozère.

Table of Contents:
Southern Cevennes Walk 1 Circuit de L'Arre Walk 2 Circuit des Maures Walk 3 Roc de L'Esparon Walk 4 Pic d'Anjeau/Rochers de la Tude Walk 5 La Cirque de Navacelles Walk 6 Sentier de la Trescoulade Walk 7 Sentier des Ruisseaux Walk 8 Circuit des Camisards Walk 9 Le Sentier des Anes Walk 10 Truc de Montaigu Walk 11 La Draille de la Transhumance Walk 12 Les Cascades d'Orgon Walk 13 Lac des Pises Walk 14 Circuit de Mont St-Guiral Walk 15 L'Abîme de Bramabiau Walk 16 Vallée du Bonheur Northern Cevennes Walk 17 Round Mont Puecheral Walk 18 Sentier des Menhirs Walk 19 Walk around Le Pont-de-Montvert Walk 20 Sentier du Pic Finiels Walk 21 Ste-Enimie (Gorges du Tarn) Walk 22 Gorges du Tarn from La Malène Walk 23 Sentier des Couronnes Walk 24 Sentier du Tarn and Causse Méjean Walk 25 Sentier de Vernagues Walk 26 Le Chaos de Nîmes Le Vieux Walk 27 Sentier de Fourques Walk 28 Sentier de Pompidou Walk 29 Round Barre-des-Cévennes Walk 30 Round Fontmort Forest Walk 31 Sentier des Cans Tour of Mont Lozère Day 1 Florac to Mijavols Day 2 Mijavols to Les Bastides Day 3 Les Bastides to Le Bleymard Day 4 Le Bleymard to Les Laubies or La Fage Day 5 Les Laubies or La Fage to Florac

About the Author :
Janette Norton lives in France, near Geneva. This is her third Cicerone walking book, following her Haute Savoie and Provence guides.